{"podcast":{"title":"Golden Age Fiction","slug":"golden-age-fiction-7113362","podcast_index_feed_id":7113362,"rss_url":"https://feeds.redcircle.com/43f90e90-8c8e-40b4-9c4c-7d3d9ce904e3","website_url":"https://redcircle.com/shows/golden-age-fiction8846","image_url":"https://media.redcircle.com/images/2026/1/9/1/2032e917-8cdc-405f-be16-f8a9bea7af62_Podcast_Square_Artwork_v2.png","author":"Paul Lawley-Jones","episode_count":194,"summary":"Stories from the \"Golden Age of Pulp Fiction.\" The \"Golden Age of Pulp Fiction\" is generally considered to be from the last decade of the 1800s to the mid-1900s, when magazines published on cheap pulp paper filled (mostly American) news-stands. Notable examples of these pulp fiction magazines include Argosy, Blue Book Magazine, Adventure, Detective Story Magazine, Weird Tales, and Astounding Stories. If you have a story that you'd like me to perform, please let me know at goldenagefiction@proton.me. Please note that performance of a story is not a condoning, endorsement, or promotion of attitudes, prejudices, biases or opinions therein—particularly of gender and gender roles, ethnicity, disability, and sexuality—that an inhabitant of modern times would find distasteful.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-14T06:22:13.879331+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/golden-age-fiction-7113362"},"episode":{"title":"Translator's Error, by Charles Dye","slug":"translator-s-error-by-charles-dye","published_at":"2026-07-19T22:00:36+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/golden-age-fiction-7113362/translator-s-error-by-charles-dye","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/golden-age-fiction-7113362","url":"https://redcircle.com/shows/43f90e90-8c8e-40b4-9c4c-7d3d9ce904e3/episodes/4d266d5b-f627-4cd4-838b-2e65b9891c57","audio_url":"https://audio3.redcircle.com/episodes/4d266d5b-f627-4cd4-838b-2e65b9891c57/stream.mp3","summary":"It was a perfectly natural mistake for men to make... This short story appeared in the December 1952 issue of Dynamic Science Fiction. ----- Charles Dudley Dye (October 1925 - December 1960) was a US author who was active for less than half a decade. His first science fiction story, \"The Last Orbit\" was published in Amazing in February 1950. In 1952, he publishws his only science fiction novel, “Prisoner in the Skull”, in which ordinary Homo sapiens and a form of Superman engage in thriller-like confrontations. After publication this novel was also serialized in New Worlds from December 1954 to February 1955. He was married briefly (1950-1953) to Katherine MacLean, who wrote “The Man Who Staked the Stars” (Planet Stories, July 1952) and \"Syndrome Johnny\" (Galaxy, July 1951) under his name. The latter story containing an amazingly early account of a Genetic Engineering technique (gene splicing), in which a \"piggyback\" virus transports genetic material (a silicon-using gene) into human cells. ----- If there's a story you'd like me to narrate, please let me know at goldenagefiction@proton.me . ----- Music : \"Mesmerizing Galaxy\" Kevin MacLeod ( incompetech.com ). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ .","meta_description":"It was a perfectly natural mistake for men to make... This short story appeared in the December 1952 issue of Dynamic Science Fiction. ----- Charles Dudle…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1222,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/golden-age-fiction-7113362/episodes/translator-s-error-by-charles-dye/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/golden-age-fiction-7113362/translator-s-error-by-charles-dye.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}